You know, I just want to ignore the ME as a whole, but somebody manages to say or do something epically stupid every day. Here are some tid bits from this article.
“I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene,” Ahmadinejad said.
and…
“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”
It is actually scary what comes out of certain peoples mouths especially since many people lap it up…
Extreme ideas have direct correlation to peoples living conditions and personal wealth so its ironic that some of the most fanatical areas in the world contain some of the richest people…
[quote]mt006 wrote:
It is actually scary what comes out of certain peoples mouths especially since many people lap it up…
Extreme ideas have direct correlation to peoples living conditions and personal wealth so its ironic that some of the most fanatical areas in the world contain some of the richest people…[/quote]
Would you mind elaborating?
Iran was bled to death by imperialistic countries. A couple of decades ago, it was invaded by a tyrant armed by foreign (super)powers. In fact, that was the deadliest war of the 80s. Not to mention that their republic is less than three decades old, and that prior to it, they were ruled by a puppet-dictator. Iranians are not wealthy and none of them makes it into the top 1000. Ahmadinejad is not rich either. Indeed, he leads quite the ascetic life. So I’m not sure what you have in mind.
Now, is Iran a threat to Israel? Not in a million years. Israel as we know it (the apartheid regime) is not sustainable. Sooner or later, it will disappear. Palestinian Israelis are outbreeding the Jewish population at an alarming rate and that is all that’s needed to bring down the Zionist aspect of the place.
^ So we should like, totally lay off Iran until they have the means to back up their rhetoric!
Yay!
And lixy, I’m afraid you’re off-script. You should be telling us that Ahmedinajad has been misinterpreted, and that his words can’t possibly be interpreted as a threat or be used to incite violence against Israel. Get back on point or else … you know …
Eh, Israel can take care of itself. Funny that 70 years ago Israel didn’t exist and now it does and some people aren’t happy about it.
But let’s also look why we don’t support the displaced peoples of all nations the way we do Jews. There is some definite bias toward Zionism is this country.
No one gives a rip about Kurds, Hmong, Somalis, Serbs, etc. Where is the US in setting up these people with their own state and providing them with nuclear arms and funding?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Eh, Israel can take care of itself. Funny that 70 years ago Israel didn’t exist and now it does and some people aren’t happy about it.
But let’s also look why we don’t support the displaced peoples of all nations the way we do Jews. There is some definite bias toward Zionism is this country.
No one gives a rip about Kurds, Hmong, Somalis, Serbs, etc. Where is the US in setting up these people with their own state and providing them with nuclear arms and funding?[/quote]
[quote]lixy wrote:
pat wrote:
Yup, we need to sit down and negotiate with that.
A majority of Americans would agree.
AIPAC thanks its lucky stars for the US not being a direct democracy.[/quote]
Uh no, very few people think that sitting down with a sociopath is a good idea. I supposed you would have negotiated with Ted Bundy? It’s about the same mentality except, Bundy liked to kill his victims one at a time.
[quote]MrRezister wrote:
^ So we should like, totally lay off Iran until they have the means to back up their rhetoric!
Yay!
And lixy, I’m afraid you’re off-script. You should be telling us that Ahmedinajad has been misinterpreted, and that his words can’t possibly be interpreted as a threat or be used to incite violence against Israel. Get back on point or else … you know …[/quote]
Yeah, that’s the usual Islamic line. Of course, we have no idea if he’s a Sunni or Shia because he fakes ignorance about which school of jurisprudence he most identifies with, but he will still side with other Muslims to lie to the infidel if it benefits Islam.
Not quite right. Jews from all over Europe are moving there thanks to Islamic savages moving to Europe (like yourself), and the Orthodox Jews have lots of children. So the Arab-Israeli component is certainly growing, but the Jewish component is growing yet faster.
But this falls under your “world’s fastest growing religion” category of lies.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
Now, is Iran a threat to Israel? Not in a million years. Israel as we know it (the apartheid regime) is not sustainable. Sooner or later, it will disappear. Palestinian Israelis are outbreeding the Jewish population at an alarming rate and that is all that’s needed to bring down the Zionist aspect of the place.
Not quite right. Jews from all over Europe are moving there thanks to Islamic savages moving to Europe (like yourself), and the Orthodox Jews have lots of children. So the Arab-Israeli component is certainly growing, but the Jewish component is growing yet faster.
But this falls under your “world’s fastest growing religion” category of lies.[/quote]
Not to mention that if the palestinians, have no resources of their own and won’t work for their own shit, they sit with their hand out toward their sworn enemies; don’t have the infastructure to sustain an overwhelming population. Perhaps they should consider not fucking so much.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Last time I checked, Israel had nukes and Iran had none.
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Good! Let’s conquer them before they get 'em. Take over the oil fields, end of energy problems. No more Iranian ragheads in yachts and palaces while old people freeze. They can have their goat pasture, we’ll just occupy the oil fields.
We should even pay the Iranians for the oil, its real worth — maybe $20/barrel. Seems fair.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
No one gives a rip about Kurds, Hmong, Somalis, Serbs, etc. [/quote]
Funny that nobody peeped a word at the U.S. department of state pushing the PKK on the terrorist list. The oppression of those folks at the hands of the Turks has been institutionalized for decades.
And guess who’s handing out (no, not selling) weapons to Turkey?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
pat wrote:
The U.S. never “set up” Israel.
No, they just officially recognized it as a state and then dared any other country to counter that opinion.
What about my point of the other displaced ethnic groups?[/quote]
It’s hard to call them displaced when the entire country is only 3 hours drive in length. Jordan is 85% Palestinian, Gaza is Palestinian, and there are Arab countries surrounding it. Besides that, as lixy was so kind to point out, there are a lot of Arab Israelis.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Last time I checked, Israel had nukes and Iran had none.
Good! Let’s conquer them before they get 'em. Take over the oil fields, end of energy problems. No more Iranian ragheads in yachts and palaces while old people freeze. They can have their goat pasture, we’ll just occupy the oil fields.
We should even pay the Iranians for the oil, its real worth — maybe $20/barrel. Seems fair.
